{"id":359435,"date":"2022-01-11T06:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=359435"},"modified":"2022-01-11T06:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:02:36","slug":"pau-pau-to-tanapag-3k-on-jan-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pau-pau-to-tanapag-3k-on-jan-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Pau Pau to Tanapag 3K on Jan. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_359436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-359436\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-359436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SSC-pix.jpg-11-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-359436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Saipan Swim Club\u2019s Pau Pau to Tanapag 3K will be held from the Pau Pau Beach to the Tanapag boat ramp on Jan. 22. (Mark Rabago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Saipan Swim Club will have its second competition of the year when it holds the Pau Pau to Tanapag 3K on Jan. 22.<\/p>\n<p>The open water swim is a straight line distance and is just over 3 kilometers or almost 2 miles long. It will have three age categories\u2014under 14, Open (14-and-up), and masters (35-and-up).<\/p>\n<p>SSC coach Richard Sikkel said they decided to hold the Pau Pau to Tanapag 3K after some swimmers in the community suggested the route.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of swimmers out there who swim for fun or as part of a training regimen either by themselves or in a small group and a lot of them have mentioned a Pau Pau to Tanapag swim. It is a beautiful 3K with the current swim,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sikkel added that for SSC swimmers, the Pau Pau to Tanapag 3K is a nice change of pace from the usual pool practices as well as a beautiful open water swim to start 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwimming can get very repetitive and boring so by organizing different swims I am hoping to keep it fresh for my younger competitive swimmers, but also entice other swimmers\u2014master swimmers\u2014to come out and join,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pau Pau to Tanapag 3K will have registration, marking, and race briefing at the Pau Pau Beach parking lot from 5:30am to 6am on race day. The race will start promptly at 6am or first light. An awards ceremony will commence immediately after the race.<\/p>\n<p>Participants are encouraged to coordinate transportation back from the Tanapag boat ramp to Pau Pau Beach. SSC will also strictly observe all COVID-19 protocols set in place by the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force and the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for the Pau Pau to Tanapag 3K started last Saturday, Jan. 8, and you can register by clicking your browsers to https:\/\/www.webscorer.com\/register?raceid=263714&amp;fbclid=IwAR1vnQodk7pRqlwSjrukXZfMnm4TMNM-XdNPO4zzdUMxAt74JzbN5yDCI3k.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Swim Club will have its second competition of the year when it holds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":359436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23757],"class_list":["post-359435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pau-pau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}